One-wheel harvester



(No Model.)

M. VAN MATTESON.

ONE WHEEL HARVESTER,

Patented Mar. 3, 1885.

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Parent ONE WHEEL HARVESTER.

SPECIFIQATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,136, dated March 3,1885.

Application filed November 26, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom L'z' may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARSE VAN Mirrnsorg, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in One- Wheel Harvesters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to one-wheel harvesting-machines, and is in part an improvement on the patent granted to me on the 27th of June, 1882, numbered 260, 338, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the chief portion of my machine, omitting the rake-head and attachments. Fig. 2 is a detail of the inner end of the finger-bar. Fig. 3 is a detail of a double sleeve and bracket attached to the upright standard of main frame. Fig. 4 is an under side view of a Imodification of the attachment of the rock- A is the platform, (represented in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) and B is the rock-shaft, attached by suitable bearings to the under side of finger-bar O beneath the platform, the outer end of which shaft is attached by means of a crank-arn1 to the grain-wheel, all as shown in my patent hereinbefore referred to. The crank-arm at this outer end of the rock-shaft is here marked 12, and near the inner end of said shaft there is attached solidly thereto (as by welding) another cranlrarin, (marked b.) In my former patent the rock-shaft B terminated with the inner crank; butin my present device the said shaft is continued inward, so as to project through a hole in the bottom of a depending bracket, E, as hereinafter described.

D is the upright standard of my main frame, and D is the horizontal seat-board. To this standard D are securely fastened the eyebolts d cl, which serve as bearings for two upright rods, d d, upon which slide the double sleeves E E, which are connected by a web that bears the depending bracket E, already referred to, the sleeves and bracket being preferably in 7 one piece.

attached to the seatboard D, and is there made fast to the end of a lever, D whose detent is secured between the teeth of said plate. The Windlass-sector d has a hook in its groove, and to this is attached one end of a chain, d, the other end of which is made fast to the bracket E, as shown.

B is a bent lever, which is pivoted to the upright standard D, and at its rear end is connected to alink, 19 whose other end is pivoted to the rear end of the crank-arm b, and the detent of this lever is secured between the teeth of a locking-plate, b also secured to the standard D, and when it is so secured the link 12 holds the crank-arm Z) of the rock-shaft B rigidly in position.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that by raising the lever D the chain d will draw the bracket E upward, and with it the rockshaft B, which, as stated, passes through a hole in the said bracket, and asthe crankarm b is held rigidly by means of the link b ratchet b, and lever B, just described, both' ends of the platform and finger-bar will be raised equally and simultaneously. Now, in order to raise or lower the outer ends of the platform and finger-bar independently of their inner ends, it is only necessary to raise or lower the lever B, which action will depress or raise the rear end of the crank-arm b, as the case may be, and hence rock the shaft B back or forward, thereby accomplishing by my present means the object attained by other means in my patent already named.

The means for rolling or tilting the platform and finger-bar will next be described.

F is a bracket, the depending ends of which are pivoted to the sides of the finger-bar G at its inner end, and from the top of the bracket, near its rear end, rises the sleeve F, rigid with said bracket, and this sleeve encircles avertical rod, f, and has vertical play thereon, while the upper end of said rod passes through a curved slot, (1 in an extension of the angleplate D which serves to connect the standard with the seat-board, and akey, f through said rod under the slot prevents upward movement of the rod.-

F is a roek-shaft secured to the upper front edge of the seat-board and angle-plate by an ear or staple on the latter and a locking-plate, f, on the former, through which plate the ment of said sleeve and bracket as the finsaid crank passes, and is there connected to a lever, F Whose detent engages with the teeth of said locking-plate, while the short arm f of said crank is connected by a link, f, with the upper end of the rod f.

By moving the lever F back or forth the rock-shaft F", to which said lever is rigidly connected, will move the rod f in the slot d and hence also move the sleeve F and bracket F back or forth, and thus roll or tilt the finger-bar and platform correspondingly upon the rock-shaft B, while by reason of the described vertical play of the sleeve F upon the rod f, and also on account of the fact that the bracket F is pivoted to the fingerbeam, as shown, all binding of these parts is prevented in the upward or downward moveger-beam and platform are raised or lowered by the device previously described, and the described key j on the rod f effectually prevents the rod from being forced upward when thefinger-beam and platform are raised.

When it is desired to use my improvements with a machine whose platform is raised or lowered at the outer end by a lever connected to a grain-wheel, instead of by the crank on the rock-shaft and the lever operating in connection therewith, the inner end of the fingerbar and platform may be provided with a short rock-shaft, l3, passingthrough the hole in the dependingbracket E,like the long roclcshaft, but without my crank-extension, (all shown in Fig. 4,) and hence the lever B and its link b would be dispensed with in this construction; but the other parts might all be as shown.

G represents a metal frame, and H a frameplate connected therewith, which together en circle the main drive-wheel G, (which latter is of ordinary. construction and provided with the usual interior flange having radially-arranged cog-gearing 9 and the said frame and frame-plate afford a support for each end of the axle of the said main drive-wheel, all as more fully set forth in a separate application for patent filed simultaneously with this application,

in'which other application the construction and function of the lever H tube I, and footrest 1; herein illustrated are set forth. I also show in Fig. 1 a metal brace, G extending from near the rear of the metal frame G up to near the outer end of the seat-board D, and across under the same, and then down again to near the front end of the frame, and securely bolt this brace to both the frame and seat-board to strengthen the latter.

K is a short or stub pole bolted to the inner side of the frame-plate, chamfered, as shown, and cut away, so as not to interfere with the working of the lever H and extending in front of the frame, and to this stub-pole the main pole K is bolted. A metal brace, k, extends from the outer front corner of the frame G to the front end of this stub -pole, and from the main pole opposite this point there extends another brace, k, whose rear end is pivoted to a projection on the finger-bar.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination of the finger-bar, platform, rock-shaft, and grain-wheel of a harvesting-machine with the standard D, having the eyebolts d d, upright rods d d, double sleeves E E, sliding upon said rods, and connected by a web bearing a depending bracket, E, perforated to receive the ends of the rockshaft, and chain d", seatboard D, and angleplate D rod D bearing grooved Windlasssector d notched plate (1 and lever D lever B, notched plate b link k, and crank 12, whereby both ends of the platform and finger-bar may be raised equally and simultaneously, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the standard D,.seatboard D, and angle-plate D, with curved slot d", and rock-shaft B and its bearings, with the platform A and finger-bar 0, connected by pivoted brace to the tongue-bracket F, having depending ends pivoted to the sides of the inner end of the finger-bar, and vertical sleeve F, extending from the top of said bracket and rigid tl1erewith,vertical rodf,withkeyf*, link f, tilting-crank F with arm f notched plate f and tilting-lever F whereby fingerbar and platform may be rolled or tilted. forward or back, substantially as set forth.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

MARSE VAN MATTESON.

Witnesses:

STANLEY S. Srou'r,

HQG. UNDERWOOD. 

